Cara and Xan, Naomi and Filip

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THE EXPANSE – Season 6 Episode 6 – SPOILERS

Daniel Jun, Diane Aguilar, and Emma Ho

The Bisset family: Cara (Emma Ho), Gary (Daniel Jun), and Dot (Dianne Aguilar)

Emma Ho will be Stacy Palumbo in the Netflix series GRENDEL (based on the Dark Horse comics) due to be released later this year.

Cara (Emma Ho) brings the newly resurrected and repaired Xan (Ian Ho) back home, only to find that her parents are less than pleased with his return. Her father (Gary, played by Daniel Jun), who may have seen too many zombie movies, pulls a knife on the boy, and cuts the palm of Xan’s hand (which bleeds black stuff and heals itself quickly). Then he locks Xan in a closet and calls the soldiers. Cara decoys mom and dad into chasing a recording of herself, returns, and flees into the woods with her brother, who cautions her that (unlike him?) she can eat none of the things in the woods and that she will probably die. This does not concern her overmuch, since she knows the dogs will repair her as well. As Cara continues deeper into the woods, we get to see Cara from her brother’s point of view, which includes the same sort of energy signatures Detective Miller saw on Eros just before it crashed into Venus. Cut to Admiral Duarte (Dylan Taylor), who seems quite pleased with himself, and is looking upward at the flashing lights of the alien artifact in orbit. Continue reading →

Free Will and the Inevitable

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THE EXPANSE – Season 6 Episode 5 – SPOILERS

Dominique Tipper and Cara Gee

Naomi Nagata (Dominique Tipper) and Camina Drummer (Cara Gee)

Camina Drummer (Cara Gee) gets the best lines. Last episode she told Inaros: “Live shamed, and die empty.” This time she tells Chrisjen Avasarala: “A century of oppression made Marco Inaros inevitable.” When Naomi (Dominique Tipper) meets with her, Drummer recites the losses she has suffered in the conflict. “Oksana and Bertold left after I turned on Marco to save the Rocinante. Serge was executed in reprisal. Josep and Michio have decided to remain on Ceres so they don’t have to keep paying for the choices I made for them.” With some persuasion from Naomi, Drummer decides that she has no other options, and reluctantly joins with Avasarala (Shohreh Aghdashloo) in an alliance of convenience, but one suspects she still does not trust the inners. (Avasarala says she has changed, and she might have, but every decision she has made, including making an alliance with Drummer, can be justified in terms of benefit to Earth. Though she may be being helpful to others, she has given up nothing in the process.) Continue reading →

Signs, Signals, and Survivors

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KINGSWAY – written and directed by Bruce Sweeney – SPOILERS

Camille Sullivan and Agram Darshi

Jessica and Megan flirt at work

Matt Horvat (Jeff Gladstone) , who is a Semiotics Professor and has a history of anxiety and depression, tells his therapist (Sara, played by Jennifer McLean) that his life has “never been better” and he thinks he doesn’t need to see her anymore. After he leaves, he stops for a chicken sandwich and spots his wife’s motorcycle parked at a motel. (The motel involved is the 2400 Motel on The Kingsway in Vancouver, hence the film’s title. Church’s Chicken, which is now Church’s Texas Chicken, is right across the street.) He phones his sister Jess (Camille Sullivan), tells her what’s happening, and asks her not to tell their mother. She agrees, then immediately puts him on speaker, which illustrates his relationship with his family pretty well. Continue reading →